For humans, daytime brings work and play. For bats it is the time to rest in some secluded shelter, hang head down, groom, sleep, and perhaps even quarrel. When night approaches, bat activity ...

Concern around declining bat population exists because bats are beneficial to our ecosystem. Bats benefit the agriculture ...

Bats Are Beneficial. Many bats eat insects like mosquitoes, beetles, moths and flies. They can “consume their body weight in insects in one night, perhaps up to 1,000 insects,” Hammer said.

"Lots of things fly at night," says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set the stage for an acrobatic high-stakes drama in the air — a ...

At night in one of the darkest places on Earth it's hard to see, and impossible to count, the hundreds of thousands of bats that boil out of Rose Cave after sunset.

When a colony of bats leaves their cave and takes to the skies at night to hunt, they often do so in such big groups that they almost look like one giant blob. How these winged mammals can achieve ...

“I mean, they were flying a couple of feet over your head,” Bawden said. The event lasts for about 20 minutes with as many as 10,000 Mexican Free-Tailed bats swarming the sky.

Mexican free-tailed bats fly out of Frio Cave, Texas, on April 6, 2024. Photographer Babak Tafreshi used a fish-eye lens and soft flashes to create this single-exposure image of 30 seconds.